saturnine

Questions about saturnine

What does saturnine mean?

saturnine means "bitter or scornful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saturnine?

saturnine has 3 syllables and divides as sa-tur-nine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for saturnine?

Close synonyms include dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saturnine a common word?

saturnine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.